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- How to Put Up a Facebook Resistance — by Oliver Leistert — last modified Feb 21, 2012 08:47 AM
- Review of Marc Stumpel’s essay, "Mapping the Politics of Web 2.0: Facebook Resistance", in Digital Alternatives with a Cause Book 2: To Think, pp.24-31 by Oliver Leistert.
- Analysis of Copyright Expansion in the India-EU FTA (July 2010) — by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Feb 20, 2012 08:21 AM
- In this blog post, Snehashish Ghosh examines the copyright clauses in the July 2010 leak of the India-EU FTA, and points out how the EU's demands go beyond India's international obligations, and necessitate harmful changes in Indian law.
- An Interview with Dr. Francis Jayakanth — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 24, 2012 06:09 AM
- India has been losing out its best talents to the West, however, this trend could be reversed if we create adequate number of world-class institutions and research facilities, and our scientific productivity and quality of research will improve significantly, says Dr. Francis Jayakanth in an email interview with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
- Research papers will be available in public domain — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2012 05:38 AM
- IIT-Madras intends to make circle of knowledge complete, writes Vasudha Venugopal in this article published in the Hindu on 15 February 2012. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam is quoted in the article.
- OurSay: how India’s technology is cutting into corruption — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 17, 2012 02:40 AM
- In the world’s largest democracy, corruption has long been part of the system of governance. However, transformative new technologies are playing an exciting and powerful role in citizen engagement, good governance and in the mobilisation of the masses for social action.
- Digital Natives Video Contest — by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:35 PM
- The Everyday Digital Native Video Contest has its top five winners through public voting.
- India won't censor social media: Telecom Minister — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 01, 2012 07:15 AM
- India does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook, a minister said Tuesday, but he demanded that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media. The article by AFP was published in the Tribune on February 14, 2012.
- Govt set to gain ‘back-door’ access to corporate email — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 14, 2012 12:55 PM
- The government is just a step away from gaining access to RIM’s widely used BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, writes Shauvik Ghosh in an article published in LiveMint on 14 February 2012.
- Personal Data, Public Profile — by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 14, 2012 06:19 AM
- Whether we like it or not, we live in a world that is rapidly being Googlised, writes Nishant Shah in an article published by the Financial Express on February 13, 2012.
- Indian law caught in web — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 14, 2012 05:41 AM
- Can Information Technology Act deal with the dynamics of the Net? Lawrence Liang, Pranesh Prakash and Nishant Shah have been quoted in this article by Moyna which was published in Down to Earth magazine Issue: February 15, 2012.
- Prometheus bound and gagged — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 14, 2012 04:47 AM
- Funny how a healthy person like me can collapse one day and end up in the hospital. The doctor who made me go through every lab test available, finally diagnosed the cause after a chat with me. Apparently, I collapsed because I’m getting angry, increasing my blood pressure. The only solution he said is to stop reading newspapers, as I’m getting agitated by headlines like ‘India can go the China way and block sites’, or by how the government says there’s no Internet censorship while all it’s actions point the other way.
- Internet Curbs — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 13, 2012 12:29 PM
- A Delhi high court judge threatens to go the China way. The IT act is closing in. The war on the web is a war on us, writes Rishi Majumder in an article that was published in Tehelka on 18 February 2012.
- World Narrow Web — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 27, 2012 04:00 PM
- Censorship and how govt reacts to it may push us to country-specific networks, writes Pranesh Prakash in an article published in the Indian Express on 4 February 2012.
- Tweeple say it pithily with hash tags — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 13, 2012 05:06 AM
- Twitter best captures public irreverence to pomposity and the powers-that-be, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on February 11, 2012. Nishant Shah is quoted in this article.
- New Bill to decide on individual’s right to privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 07, 2012 07:19 AM
- A group of experts would identify issues relating to privacy and prepare a report to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill. Vishwajoy Mukherjee's article was published in Tehelka on 6 February 2012.
- A new domain name, but concerns remain the same — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 06, 2012 08:40 AM
- It seemed like an innocuous enough change — from this week, all visitors from India to blogs hosted on Google's Blogger saw the URLs read [blogname].blogspot.in rather than the .blogspot.com they were used to. Karunya Keshav's article was published in the Hindu on 5 February 2012.
- Digital Futures: Internet Freedom and Millennials — by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 15, 2012 04:25 AM
- Last year was a turbulent year for freedom of speech and online expression in India. Early in 2011 we saw the introduction of an Intermediaries Liability amendment to the existing Information Technologies Law in the country, which allowed intermediaries like internet service providers (ISPs), digital content platforms (like Facebook and Twitter) and other actors managing online content, to remove material that is deemed objectionable without routing it through a court of law. Effectively, this was an attempt at crowdsourcing censorship, where at the whim or fancy of any person who flags information as offensive, it could be removed from digital platforms, writes Nishant Shah in DMLcentral on 3 February 2012.
- Common man as crusader — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 06, 2012 04:13 AM
- Tamil Nadu saw its highest poll turn out in 44 years when 75% of its adults exercised their franchise in the 2011 assembly elections. There were 48 lakh Google searches for ‘Anna Hazare’ on June 8 2011 (when he began his fast) compared to a negligible number on any day in 2010. A 42-year-old man immolated himself in Kutch last year when he was told to bribe officials to access his own ancestral land records.
- 5 things you need to know about online privacy policies — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 30, 2012 12:02 PM
- Ever since Google tweaked it's privacy policy on January 24, online confidentiality and its future has been the topic of a raging public debate, making it hard for an average Internet user to decide what he should and should not share on an online platform. Experts say that the key here is to understand each of the terms and policies before you sign in. Indu Nandakumar writes in the Economic Times on 2 February 2012.
- India needs an independent privacy law, says NGO Privacy India — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 03, 2012 11:46 AM
- India needs an independent privacy law though there are a number of provisions in existing legislations that protect a citizen's privacy, according to an NGO that is lobbying for the cause. The story was published in the Economic Times on 2 February 2012.
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